[R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

[Ebert,Timothy Aaron]

Would you reconsider RStudio? If this is a person's first experience with a computer or cell phone then RStudio is a bit much. Relative to using a browser, MSWord, Excel, or many of the modern video games RStudio is simple. I have seen beginning R courses start at the level of print("Hello World") in RStudio.

Tim

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Subject: Re: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or the like

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Hallo.

What about Tinn R
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tinn-2Dr.org_en_&d=DwICAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=9PEhQh2kVeAsRzsn7AkP-g&m=77JOiaooyKryeIksEwQVRP5LH9Y_sQB2KcKpYzX0bBecHpu80PU7XIAsezOdeLgR&s=2UY_KBGDpwluIcSpraHEl1kBES9jOiBRk9R7_8FDfj8&e=

It has syntax highlighting and you can easily send your whole code or its part to R from it.

Cheers
Petr


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> Singh
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> Subject: [R] Restoration of "rite" package of R as R-script editor or 
> the
like
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> I am a professor at Indira Gandhi Agricultural University, Raipur, 
> Chhattisgarh, India. I have been teaching statistics in my department
since
> 1986.
>
> Almost since the last 10 years, I have included R capabilities in 
> doing practical-classes of various statistics courses in my 
> department. I use
the
> default R-script editor that comes with RGUI.exe for that purpose. 
> *But,
this
> text editor is too simple without syntax highlighting etc. And RStudio 
> is
too
> heavy for the UG/PG level students who are basically from agriculture
> stream.*
>
> Meanwhile, I came across a "rite" package which was earlier maintained 
> by Thomas J. Leeper <thosjleeper using gmail.com>. Now, it has been put into 
> archives and not being maintained by anyone.
>
> At present, I am using the "rite" package for students' practical classes.
> But, I am facing difficulties using it. Sometimes, it hangs 
> unnecessarily,
and
> some of its features do not work, probably because it is not being 
> maintained anymore by CRAN.
>
> Therefore, to remove this difficulty, the "rite" package must be
maintained.
>
>
> Sir, "rite" package is a very light weight editor for R codes suitable 
> for teaching to beginner students, with syntax highlighting facility 
> and with
the
> facility of generating reports into HTML, markdown etc.
>
> Therefore, I request you ,*one and all who are in control, to kindly 
> make
sure
> to include the "rite" package into the regular packages with proper 
> maintenance, which will immensely help the beginner students to learn R*.
>
> Or,
>
> Kindly make sure that the *default R-script-editor gets the syntax
highlighting
> features and capability of creating basic reports*.
>
> Or,
>
> Kindly make a lighter version of RStudio *for beginner student-level 
> only,
like
> the "rite" package,*  for executing R-scripts and for generating some
basic
> reports.
>
> *In fact, the lack of a proper R-script editor is a major handicap 
> among
the
> beginner students to learn R.*
>
> Therefore, I earnestly request your kind attention to this problem.
>
> Thaing you.
>
>
> Dr. A.K. Singh
> Professor and Ex-Head (Agricultural Statistics) Department of 
> Agricultural Statistics and Social Science (L) Indira Gandhi Krishi 
> Vishwavidyalaya,
Raipur-
> 492 012, Chhattisgarh, India
> Mobile: +918770625795
> Email: akhileshsingh.igkv using gmail.com
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